Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Andrew Porter Wilson Johnston and Letitia Pheasant




Husband Andrew Porter Wilson Johnston 1 2

           Born: 14 Oct 1847 - Venango Co, PA 1
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         Father: Col. Andrew Johnston (Abt 1802-1885) 1 3 4
         Mother: Jemima Linn McCalmont (1824-1858) 3 4 5


       Marriage: 19 Mar 1873 - Huntingdon, Huntingdon Co, PA 1



Wife Letitia Pheasant 1

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         Father: George W. Pheasant (      -      ) 1
         Mother: Elizabeth W. [Unk] (      -      ) 1




Children
1 F Eva Kate Johnston 1

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2 M Andrew C. Johnston 1

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General Notes: Husband - Andrew Porter Wilson Johnston


When but six years of age he removed with his parents to Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and was educated in the public schools of that place. He also took a course of study in and was graduated from the Iron City Business College of Pittsburgh. After this he was engaged in surveying with J. Simpson Africa for about two years, and for two years later studied engineering on the Bedford and Bridgeport railroad. In 1873 he entered the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company as engineer under W. H. Brown, superintendent of Bedford division, and has been for the past twenty-two years [1883] continuously in the employment of this company, during seventeen of which he has been connected with the Middle division.
He was a member of the Royal Arcanum, No. 499. He was vice-president of the Commonwealth Building and Loan Association. In political views he was a good sound Democrat. He and his family attended the Presbyterian church.

He began his life work as a civil engineer, and was retired in 1917 as Supervisor of the Middle division of the Pennsylvania Railroad. Living in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1919.

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Sources


1 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 510.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 588.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 373.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 571, 588.

5 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 1042.


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